If you can find it, go watch Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. It's a full 90 match with 16 different cameras trained exclusively on Zidane with a Mogwai soundtrack. It's a beautiful example of how art and football can combine.

I've watched this before and I didn't find it particularly enjoyable. I think that there's one really touching moment; when he discusses rushing to the tv when he was a child because he heard the sound of that one anouncers voice. That bit is good but the rest was kind of a bore and I'm a massive Zidane fan and all about the emotional player cam videos. A whole match is just too much.

At LACMA, they had the video showing on two huge screens that were positioned right next to each other, and converted the sound to 5.1 surround, so my experience might have been different from yours. I absolutely loved the 45 minutes I watched of it. I liked it so much that I went back before I left the museum just to watch another 10 minutes.

I'm sure he is. There are two cameras that are focused on two players throughout the entire game. One from each team. On the CBC website you can watch the player stream + the game stream simultaneously . You can also watch the cameras focused on the coaches and a tactical camera.

I'm not sure, but I don't think he was aware. If he was aware, he does a bad job of hiding his emotions when he gets sent off in added time. There is some audio from interviews of him sprinkled in, but I think for the most part they asked the club if they could record and not the man himself.

CBC (Canadian channel) has this online. They use two cameras that rotate on players (one from each team) five or ten minutes at a time. They happened to be on Suarez and Chiellini for the time surrounding the bite. It was quite fascinating to watch. It included Suarez's celebration of the goal. If you have Hola blocker it's worth watching the archived replay.

Sky has them. I usually get to see a match in 4 Channels. The regular one, one with panoramic view, and two dedicated to 1 player of each team following him the whole match. That and the hability to change the commentary to ambient sound only are my favorites aspects of their transmissions.

First he searches for the ball and discusses with Dirk Kuijt. Dirk says : "You take it, you can be topscorer". After that, he asks Klaas Jan Huntelaar : "You want it?" And he says : "Yes", and takes the ball.

Easy now, Costa Rica will avenge us. And next year we have Copa America and Gold Cup! and then Copa América Centenario and Olympic Games, and then Confederations Cup, World Cup qualification and BOOM, World Cup again!

Yeah I was raised in Mexico and I honestly I wouldn't like another Concacaf team to get very far. I know its very selfish but for that exact reason you wouldn't hear the end of it. The same thing applies with Argentina imagine if they won holyshit that be annoying.

Exactly dude, I honestly don't want the US to beat Belgium or Costa Rica to advance past the Netherlands. All that CONCACAF bro corny crap only exists in this subreddit, outside of it we all still hate each other. My cousin went to Costa Rica on a trip and was denied a taxi and told "chinga a tu madre" because the taxi driver picked up his accent. The hate is real and I hope for nothing but a thrashing of Costa Rica. The US is a little more passable but I don't want em to get far at all. I want Mexico to continue its CONCACAF dominance for years to come.

As for the Netherlands, I hope they make it all the way to the final only to lose in a way similar to the way we lost. Nothing worst than second place after being so close to first.

On the other side of the spectrum, I was in a (the) theme park in Costa Rica when there were a bunch of obnoxious mexicans who wouldn't shut up about the rides and were being huge dicks to the workers.

I'm currently living in Costa Rica and the general consensus is that you guys act like the hottest shit when you travel here, I've personally never had issues with racism or anything of the sort.

There's people like that in every ethnic group. Can't judge a race on a group of people, otherwise all white Americans would be a bunch of loud, cocky, rude rednecks which the majority isn't. Its probably because the Mexicans who can afford the trips to Costa Rica are the type who act like hot shit in Mexico too. I'm not very fond of Mexicans like that myself.

Yeah, let's all hope for continued CONCACAF inferiority to European and South American clubs because you're butthurt about getting tossed in the round of 16 again.

outside of it we all still hate each other.

The only hate I ever hear spit at Mexico is when we play you. When we're not it's either casual indifference or the hope for a CONCACAF win so we're not routinely embarrassed for merely being a part of CONCACAF. Funny how our southern bros are apparently butthurt for every match the US plays, lol.

I was rooting for Mexico all cup. One of the best parties I've ever been to was when u guys qualified. Shame the Netherlands game ended the way it did, but you proved you could run with a European powerhouse so it should be semi-bittersweet.

But when we meet u on the pitch again, this brotherly love fucking ends lol.

I was gutted to see Mexico go out like this. I have never rooted for Mexico before but having been in Brazil for the last 3 weeks I have developed a strong appreciation for their team and fans. Their fans go hard and can create an absolutely incredible atmosphere. Mad respect.

Yeah Europeans really don't care about how certain federations do, and i'd be surprised if south americans would actually root for teams from their region aside of their own.

I guess it makes sense that you just want the region you compete in to be perceived more positively (which should be the case with 3 teams in the Ro16 and 1 even making it into Ro8). Would be interesting how the other "less-succesful" regions like Asia and Africa see this topic, and if they care about their federation's success at all.

I think the difference may stem from the fact that American soccer fans are super cognizant of the hurdles that need to be faced before soccer is seen as an American sport as well. It's the 5th most popular sport here, I don't think that's true of many other countries, if any. Some examples of these hurdles are increasing the legitimacy of CONCACAF, expanding the MLS while maintaining a solid pool of talent, taking Mexico's title as the premier CONCACAF team, etc, etc, etc.

It's actually surprising to see so many people see the CONCACAF solidarity posts from American fans as some form of circlerjerky shit posts devoid of any serious motivation behind them other than some sort of simplistic "us vs them" mentality. It's really not. It's a self motivated attempt at increasing this sport's legitimacy in the US as well as CONCACAF's perception abroad, which helps legitimacy within the US as well.

As this sport takes further hold here, the legitimacy of CONCACAF will become an ever more serious concern among US fans, as we're kind of "stuck" in this federation (for lack of a better term/phrase).

TL,DR It's interesting to see American fans interest in CONCACAF's strength, which IMO is a serious concern and a demonstration of an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the sport and its nuances among Americans, be portrayed as some kind of moronic shit posting. It occurs because American fans are coming to understand just how far CONCACAF has to go in relation to more prestigious federations, and it makes perfect sense to not ever see Europeans or South Americans care about their percieved strength. We know they're strong, what would be the point?

Not at all we showed we can go toe to toe with the Europeans, I blame our managers tactics at the end of that match for our loss, and I would not like to see any CONCACAF teams winning a World Cup before we do, thats just the way it is.

Lol, you really think any CONCACAF teams have/had a chance at winning it all this year? It's amazing to me that you don't see the obvious self interest for Mexico has for a team they routinely play, like the US, to do well in this tournament and beat Belgium and then maybe play a solid game against Argentina but go down. It means that your wins against the US might actually mean something, and not just in our shitty little CONCACAF rivalry, but hopefully to the whole world. Same with Costa Rica.

But by all means, hope for CONCACAF to forever be the butt of jokes among South Americans and Europeans because you're butthurt. Certainly won't change my self interested rational calculus to put away my rivalry hate and occasionally root for a team that legitimately chanted "OSAMA" during US games if it means wins against CONCACAF teams have more weight in aggregate.

Personally, the way you guys played and the enthusiasm of your coach won me over. I was cheering for you that game, and I thought it was a shame to see you guys get sent home like that. No hate from me at all!

No, I defintely wanted US and CR to get to quarters this wc. So we could have whooped some tico ass in the quarters and so the U.S pulls out of brazil with what i would call a relatively "good" campaign. Also this might serve as motivation, our concacaf "dominance" is diminishing every year. Something has to motivate this team to the world class level it should be. Our competition gets better, we have to get better.

I got the chance to see this at LACMA, as part of their futbol exhibit this Spring, and it was absolutely mesmerizing. I enjoyed a number of the pieces in the exhibit, most notably the one by Paul Pfeiffer ("Caryatid (Red, Yellow, Blue)") which featured videos of players embellishing contact with all the players, coaches, stewards, and ball boys photoshopped out of the clips. But the Zidane installation was absolutely amazing, it was almost haunting how alone he felt on the pitch and how beautifully he timed his movements during the game. If you can find it online, I'd highly recommend watching it.

This actually made me hate him a little less. It's like he was happy he won just not because of that. The shit eating grin right after it goes in and his casual stroll to the celebration is what really sold me on it. GG Oranje.

First he searches for the ball and discusses with Dirk Kuijt. Dirk says : "You take it, you can be topscorer". After that, he asks Klaas Jan Huntelaar : "You want it?" And he says : "Yes, and takes the ball".

My respect for Arjen definitely grew a lot during this tournament. Sure he's an easy diver, but this footage also shows that he is actually quite selfless. His job is to be egoistic because that's his strenght, but it's nice to see that it's just a role/character. He cares deeply for his teammates and knows his teammates' best qualities almost as well as his own.

He isn't a 'traditional' winger who makes a rush down the line and then cross it into the box for a striker to head it in. He's a player who 'has' to cut inside and shoot. Because he goes too far with that sometimes, and tries to do everything on his own, he looks quite selfish sometimes. But that's just because of his role. In reality he gives a lot about his teammates.

Such a typical mistake. Robben would have needed to pass at least 5 more guys before he could take a shot while dodging all kinds of legs. At the time I thought there was no way that was turning into a goal until marquez commited that foul.

Most "World Cup fans" (people who only each during the World Cup) are blaming robben and the ref saying it wasn't a penalty and that we got fucked over

Real fans know it was our own fault. Mexico tried to park the bus and kept giving away corners and let robben get into his running game which is a bad bad idea. Marquez lost his coll and gave awaya a stupid penalty

Most people who really know about the game feel we let ourselves down by playing defensively too early. But there's a minority of casual fans like the girls you see posting on Facebook who blame the Ref and Robben, however that view isn't taken seriously by any Mexican fans worth their salt as we've seen this story with the National Team before.

Does anyone else think that he reacted so modestly because he felt bad for selling the foul a little bit more to get the penalty? Maybe he felt bad but he knew he had to do it for his country. Seems like a different Robben to me. I like it

Robben has always been known as an actor on the field, but that's only because the entirety of the dutch team doesn't do that. He's just kinda sticks out when doing these kind of things, but he's not a bad man at all.

At every single interview that was given this WC, where the interviewers told him he certainly was the MVP, Robben denied every statement about it. "I'm actually a worse player than I was years ago, I'm just extremely lucky with my team and I couldn't have done it without them. Even the people on the bench contribute to the teams effort. Admire all the other players, but not me"

To me, Robben has risen to my new favourite player of the Dutch, before it was Van der Sar and Van Nistelrooij.